ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Albuquerque Public Schools is implementing a new process to get students reunited with their parents in a safer and more organized way after an emergency.
Picking up students after a crisis at a school can be stressful. APS parent James Candeleria said he knows that first-hand. “We were outside, there were parents not knowing if it was their kid or where their kid was,” said Candeleria.
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He explained the time he had to pick up his daughter from Washington Middle School after a deadly, on-campus shooting in 2021. “It was chaotic and I wouldn’t want no kids or parents to go through that again,” he said…